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Polychaeta name details

Staurocephalus kefersteini McIntosh, 1869

155342  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155342)

 unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
McIntosh, W.C. (1869). On the structure of the British nemerteans, and some new British annelids. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 25(2): 305-433, plates IV-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40788087
page(s): 417, plate 16 figure 11 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Type locality contained in United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note Atlantic Ocean, Scotland  
From other sources
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Scotland [details]
Etymology not stated, but clearly after Wilhelm Keferstein who named Prionognathus genus, which McIntosh mentions here.  
Etymology not stated, but clearly after Wilhelm Keferstein who named Prionognathus genus, which McIntosh mentions here. [details]

Taxonomy Moved to different genus  
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Staurocephalus kefersteini McIntosh, 1869. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155342 on 2024-03-28
Date
action
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2005-04-26 14:14:28Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2019-11-28 21:40:22Z
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original description McIntosh, W.C. (1869). On the structure of the British nemerteans, and some new British annelids. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 25(2): 305-433, plates IV-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40788087
page(s): 417, plate 16 figure 11 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

source of synonymy Pettibone, Marian H. 1961. New species of polychaete worms from the Atlantic Ocean, with a revision of the Dorvilleidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 74: 167-186., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34571297
page(s): 178; note: to new genus Protodorvillea Pettibone, as the type species [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Etymology not stated, but clearly after Wilhelm Keferstein who named Prionognathus genus, which McIntosh mentions here. [details]

From other sources
Specimen The Natural History Museum, London [details]

Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Scotland [details]